Confused by Digital Cameras? Don't Be Like many in the Baby Boom, I
grew up in a house full of cameras. The post-war prosperity meant
that most families could afford to chronicle their own lives. The
cameras ranged from antique Kodak Brownies to SLR box cameras and
gradually to Instamatics and Polaroids. When I started art school
in 1971, Photo 101 included darkroom developing and printing. My
"photo editing software" was a dodging stick - a thin rod with
variously sized and shaped cardboard forms on the end, held
manually between the projector and photo paper to deny light to
chosen areas of the print as I counted off seconds. Since I was too
broke to afford am upscale SLR, I compensated for my cheap camera's
shortcomings with creative darkroom technique. Today, we'd say most
of my work was "Photoshopped." However, I soon learned that if I
planned the shot properly, I needed less darkroom trickery to get
the finished piece I wanted. That planning paid off years later,
when I finally did have better hardware. From 2004 to 2007, I
taught a series of photography courses at the Ed Tech Training
Center in Marion, Kentucky, and shared my approaches to planning
each shot, and developing the artistic vision. I was still using
the anachronism "film speed," and would be told each time by the
students with digital cameras that they did not have film What they
couldn't grasp is that they still had film speed settings (ISO) on
their cameras. The manuals I had created for those courses formed a
solid instructional core, and were expanded into a full book.
Professionals in several states told me they've learned from my
lessons. I hope you find this work of value to you as well
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